Daniel Bell — American Sociologist born on May 10, 1919,

Daniel Bell was an American sociologist, writer, editor, and professor emeritus at Harvard University, best known for his contributions to the study of post-industrialism. He has been described as "one of the leading American intellectuals of the postwar era." His three best known works are The End of Ideology, The Coming of Post-Industrial Society and The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism... (wikipedia)

I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.
When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.
Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.